Thought Leaders on Internet of Things: Ordr CEO Greg Murphy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Architecturally, we’re in the last mile of where these devices are located. How close to those devices are you putting the agent that can collect data?

Greg Murphy: What we’re doing is, we’re putting a sensor. Our job is to passively monitor the network traffic. In a typical manufacturing environment or hospital, you may put one sensor and use that to monitor the traffic. Once we understand that and see all the communication patterns through and from every device, we use that knowledge to build a behavioral model of each of these devices.

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Thought Leaders on Internet of Things: Ordr CEO Greg Murphy (Part 1)

IoT Security is a huge vulnerability all over the world at the moment. Greg breaks down the problem into opportunities for innovators to offer solutions.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the company.

Greg Murphy: I’m the CEO at Ordr. We’re the leader in connected device security focusing on IoT and all connected devices in the enterprise.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anirudh Damani, Managing Partner at Artha Venture Fund (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is your portfolio all India-born companies?

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